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JKK is a blogging friend of mine. He's good with UMPC hacks and tweaks.
Look what he did with his Eee PC!
http://jkkmobile.blogspot.com/2007/12/a … creen.html
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i assume that would be expensive an not worth the time and effort put in
but it still is very cool
Last edited by Vaporizor92 (2007-12-19 4:35:12 pm)
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i believe a touchscreen costs less than $100
I installed one on my 17inch lcd before.
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It's not that expensive. Look for sites that cater to embedded industrial or media machines such as kiosk makers, etc.
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we need prices and a guide! looks amazing 
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oh great! love it!
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Please if this is a friend of yours get us brand and model number for the touch screen. and maybe some more info as far as a howto. How did he interface it?
nagal
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That is very cool! make and model def. desired!
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if someone did this, wouldnt it be easier for internal mods. because if you have a touchscreen there isnt much use for a touch pad. but how does 'right' click?
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He says in the video he got in on Ebay, for approx $60 and it was a replacement 7" color screen
I looked on Ebay and didn't really find one, but searching on Google I found plenty for right around $100. Seems to be more common that you'd think.
Here's a link to one: http://www.digitalww.com/store/proddetail.asp?prod=TS7K
Last edited by creativepart (2007-12-19 5:24:03 pm)
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This looks the same....might work:
http://cgi.ebay.com/7-inch-TOUCH-SCREEN … dZViewItem
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woah sick!
is that 4-wire or 5-wire? Whats the difference??
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I am sorry I don't have more details and he's in Finland so it's hard to catch up with him.
To right-click on a touch screen (in Windows, anyway) you hold down the stylus for a second and a a little circle draws around the point. When the circle is done drawing, the right-click registers.
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I have a toughbook with a touchscreen, I thought it was really cool when I got it but it is just not real practical to use, just about any other input device works better, you have to take your hand off of the keyboard pick up a stylus, perform function drop stylus, return hand to keyboard, with a mouse or trackball move pointer click return hand, if you use a finger instead of a stylus, your accuracy becomes highly diminished.
just my experiences
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Woah! I wonder how difficult that would be to get that working in Linux?
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on my Lilliput, I use my fingernail to tap the screen. Not straight on, but like your flicking it. Deadly accuracy 
LMAO!
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Touchscreens can work excellently when they're applied to the right application, for example this year I've been testing some tannoy announcement software where controlling it using a touchscreen is the perfect input device - all you have to do is press on the screen the parts of the building layout where you want the message to play then press the sound button.
But for general day-to-day control of a windows environment a mouse or touchpad doesn't get your arm as tired as using a touchscreen.
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vvlist wrote:
Woah! I wonder how difficult that would be to get that working in Linux?
You would only need to do some searching for xorg.conf and touch screen. this would yield up the information you seek.
nagal
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Damn he beat me to it! Had all the parts just not the eee.
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mountainfreak wrote:
Damn he beat me to it! Had all the parts just not the eee.
P0Wn3D! 
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That's very impressive.
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nagal1000 wrote:
mountainfreak wrote:
Damn he beat me to it! Had all the parts just not the eee.
P0Wn3D!
Actually not I had ordered everything and posted before he did the mod. I could sue. Just kidding dude. Yes! Touch screen! I bought mine for 55 on ebay.
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This is definitely a mod of interest. Keep us updated!
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Please post a how-to once someone is able to install a touchscreen. Excellent Work!!
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I had a touchscreen on a 7" 3 years ago...does that count for anything?
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